Lively, with lip-smacking acidity and yet also some melon-like fleshiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Bordeaux, Well Worth Seeking Out] Reference

We thought it would have a melon-like texture inside but were we surprised when we cut it open to discover this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

The opening where one pokes his/her head through is stretchy to accommodate medium sized noggins as well as melon-like ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - PacMan Hat] Reference

The wines tend to have melon-like fruit but a firm backbone that makes them quite different from sunny, gulpable, simple Italian Pinot Grigio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steaming Up to Summer] Reference

Without his even asking, she undid her bodice, and murmured, "Now you may do what you like," offering her melon-like breasts to him as if they were on a platter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

I eagerly cut down a couple of the melon-like fruit and descended with them to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Eastern Seas] Reference

The moist, warm climate seemed to suit the papaw tree, as it grew with great vigour, and produced very large and fine melon-like fruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Like making sure Deadeye stood on the other side of his vacuous, melon-like head while he pulled the trig on his 357 magnum against his temple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

The snubfin not only looks strange - it has a small dorsal fin and round, melon-like head - but new research shows it has an unusual method of feeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

In another moment I believe I should have fallen, when I saw a plant trailing along the ground, with large leaves, and among them a large melon-like fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference

Near colorless in the glass with fine bubbles, this wine has a mineral, melon-like nose with a bright, almost tangy whiff of freshly baked bread crust aromas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vinography: A Wine Blog] Reference

What! rather have the pumpkin first? "he continued, as the great trunk curved slowly towards the golden-hued, melon-like fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference

Just then, a trampling and lumbering became audible, and on the road behind appeared first three horsemen riding abreast, streaming with black and white ribbons; then eight pair of black horses, a man walking at the crested heads of each couple, and behind these a coach, shaped like an urn reversed, and with a coronet on the top, silvered, while the vehicle itself was, melon-like, fluted, alternately black, with silver figures, and white with black landscapes; and with white draperies, embroidered with black and silver, floating from the windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference